Emergency responders almost suffered a potentially deadly impact involving a driverless heavy vehicle, an advocacy revealed. Rio Tinto was recently urged to fully explain how crew members barely...
Category - Health & Safety
A resources multinational is examining how autonomous carriers were involved in multiple accidents. Rio Tinto recently revealed that two driverless trains became derailed. One automated locomotive...
Mine employees have been asked to complete a second round of medical screening across the Sunshine State. More than 100 Queensland coal workers were recently urged to have their lungs reexamined...
A remote operation is unlikely to resume production for most of the year. Authorities revealed work could stay suspended at Newmont Corporation’s Telfer mine for up to six months. Milling was...
Substandard employment environments have to be referred to the safety watchdog. Employers were recently warned they must report sexual harassment, sexual assault, psychological abuse, physical harm...
A mining giant stopped production following a serious incident that left employees unconscious and hospitalised in northwest Queensland. A 26-year-old contractor is in an induced coma and on assisted...
A mining fatality is being mourned just 18 months after a different workmate passed away. Colleagues, friends and family are reeling after Eli Kelly died at Gold Fields’ Saint Ives mine...
Severe weather will suspend a North Australian resources operation for almost a year. Tropical Cyclone Megan’s 200km/h winds and 681mm of rainfall is likely to delay production at Groote...
Every resources employee should have their health and wellbeing prioritised, an advocate said. The Queensland Government urged every mining company to put work safety first. “Safety is my...
A loose wire spool unexpectedly toppled, fatally crushing an employee. Authorities recently investigated how a 2.3 metre wide cable drum detached from two steel stands and killed a worker at an...
An accident involving multiple remote workers has set back a major mineral company. Rio Tinto recently confirmed its five year fatality free streak is over, following a fly-in fly-out plane crash...
Two truck employees became crushed under extremely heavy loads. Authorities recently investigated two cases where a heavy vehicle cab and bundle of steel pinned workers. The first incident involved a...
